Via Flula Borg's podcast (though it seems this was an internet thing a few months back), Tom Cruise is older than Wilford Brimley was when he was in Cocoon.
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Thanks to something I saw on twitter this morning, here is the wikipedia page of one Joseph Lau, a billionaire from Hong Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lau
The WTF part of this is that he has been convicted and sentenced of crimes in Macau, but is safely in Hong Kong...because HK and Macau have no extradition treaty between them. Between Hong Kong and Macau. Two cities that are so close to each other that they just opened a bridge between them. Two cities that are part of the same country. I mean I could go on.
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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8712981.html
Franck Ribery responds to criticism over his gold steak.
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- The House with the Golden Windows
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Road sign flattens car on freeway in Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-...
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There are 900,000 cubic yards of borderline inedible American cheese clogging up US industrial freezers. I'm sure this is a serious issue for dairy farmers, but I'm just baffled that cheese is measured in cubic yards.
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I suppose that depends what you mean by American cheese. "American Cheese" is, by definition, borderline inedible and what seems to exist by the hundred-thousand-cubic-yard. There is, I am led to believe, acceptable cheese that's made in the US, but this almost always seems to be soft goat or sheep milk cheese which is not something I'm generally partial to.
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I always want to work out per capita numbers when I read stats like that. The current US population is around 325m, so 900,000 cubic yards is around 1 cubic yard for every 360 people in the US, or 1 cubic foot for every 13.3 people, which is approximately 130 cubic inches per person, but that includes infants and the aged so young active adults need to eat more than that. Still more after allowing for non-consumption by vegans and the lactose-intolerant. Have some pickle with it, it'll be fine.
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There is decent cheddar made in Wisconsin, Vermont and New York available in pretty much every supermarket in NYC.
I was referring to this stuff, which by law cannot be sold as "Cheese" tout court. As you see, it is labelled as "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product"
and gets distributed to the poor like this
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There's something like a sub-par mild English cheddar that you can get in US supermarkets. If you want even a Tesco 2-strength generic medium cheddar you have to go to the special Deli section.
For a country that treats drowning almost all its food in a melted-cheese-adjacent high grease product as something akin to a necessary religious ritual, it's amazing how little the US actually cares about the taste of its cheeses.
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It is worth noting that Ursus talks of NYC supermarkets. In many respects NYC is an independent city state with only marginal cultural connections with "real" America. That you can get decent cheese in New York does not mean you'll find it in Chillicothe, Ohio or Minot, North Dakota.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostBit late but that 5,000-year-old t-rex/Jesus riding the stegosaurus story is astonishing.
I mean, believe whatever fairy stories you like - but you can't have it both ways.
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